Clinical lectures on the principles and practice of medicine . hepa-tization pus corpuscles in all stages of formation, and thus convincedhimself of a truth which, S3 far from revolting the clinical sense, presentsto it new and important arguments for a more successful practice, as willbe subsequently shown. The microscope has proved that many so-calledpurulent fluids are not purulent at all, whereas it distinctly demonstratesthat the disintegration, softening, and liquefaction of the plastic exudationin pneumonia—processes admitted by M. Grisolle—are in truth theresult of a vital growth of pu
Clinical lectures on the principles and practice of medicine . hepa-tization pus corpuscles in all stages of formation, and thus convincedhimself of a truth which, S3 far from revolting the clinical sense, presentsto it new and important arguments for a more successful practice, as willbe subsequently shown. The microscope has proved that many so-calledpurulent fluids are not purulent at all, whereas it distinctly demonstratesthat the disintegration, softening, and liquefaction of the plastic exudationin pneumonia—processes admitted by M. Grisolle—are in truth theresult of a vital growth of pus-cells; by favoring which we can causerecovery in our patients, and by diminishing or interfering with whichwe increase the mortality among them. The direct proof that requires he may himself obtain by making a few sections of anypneumonic lung with a Valentins knife, and carefully examining them firstunder a magnifying power of 25, and then of 250 diameters linear, whenhe will see appearances similar to those now figured, and recognise4—. Fig. 452. Pig. 453. 1st, Molecular exudation in the air-vesicles ; 2d, Passage of this bymolecular coalescence into pus-cells ; and, 3d, Formation and subsequentdegeneration of such cells. (See Molecular and Cell Theories of Organi-zation, p 115. See also Pig, 154.) Indeed, so constant is the formationof pus in pneumonia, and so clearly can it be seen to form by rnole-* Traite de la Pneumonie, 2me edit., 1864, p. 53. Fig. 452. Vertical section through the outer portion of a lung affected withpleuro-pneumonia. Externally, the exudation on the surface has formed a thick layerof molecular fibres, and shows villi, which, on becoming vascular, absorb the serousfluid. The lower half of the figure shows the air vesicles of the lung blocked up withthe coagulated molecular exudation. 25 diam. Fig. 453. Two moulds of coagulated exudation from air vesicles in red hepatizationof the lung, a, Molecular exudation, aggregating into small
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